Web scraping in Objective C

Question

is there any Objective C library for parsing HTML, like python\'s BeautifulSoup? Thanks

Answer 1

From Apple's part there is NSXMLDocument and NSXMLParser, which support tidied HTML input. (Tree-Based XML Programming Guide)

On iOS (4.3) there's currently no NSXMLDocument available, so you'd have to use either NSXMLParser or libxml2.2.

Some more informations on potential problems with parsing malformed HTML:
What's the best approach for parsing XML/'screen scraping' in iOS? UIWebview or NSXMLParser?

The most reliable solution is to use an off-screen WebView, load the HTML source into it and then access its DOM tree.